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he held the office the remainder of his life. He was married at Fincastle, Va., Jan. 5, 1808, to Julia Hancock, who died in 1820, leaving him five children. On Nov. 28, 1821, he was married to Harriet Kennerly Radford of St. Louis, Mo., and their son, Jefferson Kearney, resided in that city in 1895, the only living grandchild of John and Ann ("Rogers) Clark. Gov. William Clark died in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 1, 1838.

CLARK, William, representative, was born in Dauphin county, Pa., Feb. 18, 1774; son of William Clark and grandson of William Clark. He was married in 1802 to Sarah Patter.son of Meadville, Pa., and had eleven children. He was associate judge of Crawford county. Pa., 1803-18; and brigade inspector of the western district of Pennsj-lvania during the war of 1812-14, being on board the flagship St. Laicrence in her first engagement with the British fleet. He was sec- retary of the land office from May 11, 1818, to May 11, 1821; state trea.surer, 1821-27; treasurer of the United States, 1828-29 ; and a Whig represen- tative in the 23d and 24th congresses, 1833-37. He died in Dauphin, Pa., March 28, 18.51.

CLARK, William Andrews, senator, was born near Connellsville, Pa., Jan. 8, 1839. He was brought up on a farm and was jirei^ared for college at Laurel Hill academy. In 18.59 he re- moved with his father's family to Iowa, where he worked on the farm, attended Iowa Wesleyan university, taught school winters, and studied law. In 1863 he crossed the jolains to Colorado, located at Central City and engaged in quartz mining. In 1864 he went to the new gold fields of Montana and mined until he had obtained §1500, when he opened a store at Virginia City and sold miners' supplies, also engaging in bank- ing. In 1872 he purchased a group of mines near Butte which proved to be of almost fabulous value, and he became the wealthiest man in the rstate, his fortune being estimated at .$60,000,000 in 1899. He travelled extensively in Europe and maintained a residence in Butte and one in New York city. He paid §42,000 for the Fortuny painting, " The Choice of a Model,"' and became the owner of rare canvases from the brushes of Corot, Rousseau, Cazen, Diaz, Lhermitte, Dau- bigny. Millet, Dupre and Troyon. In 1888 he was tbe defeated Democratic candidate for repre- sentative in the 51st congress and in 1890 was defeated in the contest for U.S. senator. In 1893 he was chosen by the Democrats as their candi- date for the U.S. senate, but a " deadlock " defeated an election. In 1899, however, he was elected senator as successor to Lee Mantle for the term expiring March 3, 1905.

CLARK, William Audley, banker, was born in Newport, R.I., in 1803; son of Audley Clark,

founder of the Bank of Rhode Island in 1795 and connected with its management till his death in 1844. In 1818 the son entered the bank as clerk, became cashier in 1839, and president in 1862. He was president of the Rhode Island bridge company, of the first local telegraph company, life director of the Newport librarj^ and a liberal patron of Unitarian effort, including the erection of the Channing memorial church. His liberality secured the second " liberty tree " erected at the head of Thomas street, Newport. He died in Newport, R.I., March 26, 1887.

CLARK, William Bullock, educator, was born at Brattleboro, Vt., Dec. 15, 1860; son of Barna A. and Helen C. (Bullock) Clark; and a de- scendant on his father's side of Thomas Clark of Plymouth; also of John Howland, secretary to the governor of the colony. He was graduated at the Brattleboro high school in 1879 ; at Am- herst college in 1884 ; and at the Royal university, Munich, Germany, in 1887, with the degree of Ph.D. He then studied in Berlin and London for a short time, and in 1887 was called to Johns Hopkins university to organize a course of in- struction in stratigraphical geology and paleon- tology. He was appointed jjrofessor of organic geology and a member of the board of university stvidies. He was made a non-resident member of the staff of the U.S. geological survey in 1888, and in 1891 was instrumental in establishing a state weather service for Maryland, which was recognized by the state legislature in 1892, and of which he was appointed director. In 1896 he brought about the establishment by the legisla- ture of Maryland of the state geological survey, and was placed in charge of the organization, as state geologist, by the governor. He wrote The Physical Features of Maryland (1897), together with numerous monographs and scientific articles.

CLARK, William Smith, educator, was born at Ashfield, Mass., July 31, 1826. He attended Williston seminary and was gi-aduated at Am- herst college in 1848. He taught for two years at Williston and in 1851-52 studied at the Uni- versity of Gottingen, Germany. He held the chair of analytical and applied chemistry at Amherst, 1852-54 ; that of chemistry, botany and zoology, 1854-58 ; and that of chemistry, 1858-67. He was commissioned major in the 21st Massa- chusetts infantry in August, 1861, was promoted colonel in May, 1862, and took part in the mili- tary operations in North Carolina and later in Virginia and Maryland. He was elected president of the Massachusetts agricultural college in 1867 and was also professor of botany and horticult- ure, holding these offices until 1879. He visited Japan in 1876-77 for the pvirpose of establishing the imperial college of agriculture at Sapporo.